There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards—you are going deeper.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?

How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

You have to be someone.

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.

What is needed is a biblically rooted,30 patristically guided,31 ecclesially located, and publicly engaged theology, done in critical conversation with the sciences and the various disciplines of the humanities, at the center of which is the question of the flourishing life.